Video: Pro-abortion activists try to avoid the topic of blacks
and abortion
The
Supreme Court will review whether Louisiana can require abortion facilities to
have on-staff doctors who have admitting privileges to hospitals within thirty
miles of the facility. Democrats are horrified at the thought that
the law might be upheld.
Planned
Parenthood sponsored a protest before the Supreme Court building to make known
the pro-abortion crowd's displeasure. It was at this rally that Sen. Chuck
Schumer went so far as to make what could be perceived as violent threats against
Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch in an attempt to intimidate them as they review
the issue.
The Daily
Caller sent two of its reporters to the protest to ask about the fact that
black babies are aborted in numbers hugely disproportionate to the percentage
of blacks in the American population. A website called Black
Genocide ably calls out the problem:
Minority women constitute only about 13% of the female
population (age 15-44) in the United States, but they underwent approximately
36% of the abortions.
According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, black women are
more than 5 times as likely as white women to have an abortion
On average, 1,876 black babies are aborted every day in the
United States.
This incidence of abortion has resulted in a tremendous
loss of life. It has been estimated that since 1973 Black women have had about
16 million abortions. Michael Novak had calculated "Since the number of
current living Blacks (in the U.S.) is 36 million, the missing 16 million
represents an enormous loss, for without abortion, America's Black community
would now number 52 million persons. It would be 36 percent larger than it is.
Abortion has swept through the Black community like a scythe, cutting down
every fourth member."
It was
with these statistics in mind that the reporters asked the protesters two
questions: (1) Whether they thought abortion was an important issue for women
in the black community and (2) whether it disturbed them that black babies were
aborted at a rate disproportionate to blacks' overall representation in the
American population.
It was
fascinating watching the protest attendees respond. Some simply
repeated the mantra about a woman's right to control her
body. Others refused to respond at all. Still others
became aggressive, suspecting (rightly) that there was no way they could give
an answer that wouldn't reflect poorly on their position. And a
handful essentially said that, because blacks are more likely to be poor, they
need to have abortions more often.
None
would admit to any concern about the fact that, as the saying goes, the most
dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb. Indeed, the
only women who were concerned about the racial disparity in abortions were
pro-life women.
The
video is only 9 and a half minutes long, and watching it is time well spent:
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